卷三·序言与第一章　人是小宇宙；宇宙的本命盘

BOOK III

卷三

PREFACE.

序言

[1] Let the whole discourse of mathesis that concerns the delineation of effects now be set out in definite pronouncements, so that, once everything the divine ancients published has been laid open and displayed, the entire teaching of this wisdom may be imparted by us, as fully as possible, to men devoted to this art.

〔一〕现在，让数学中关于界定效验的全部论述，转写成明确的断语，好让神圣的古人所发表的一切都被打开、展示出来之后，这门智慧的全部教导，由我们尽可能完整地传给献身于此术的人。

[2] First of all, then, Lollianus, our glory, we must know that God, the maker of man, with nature showing the way, completed the form and condition and whole substance of man after the image and likeness of the world. For he composed the body of man, like that of the world, from a mixture of the four elements, namely fire and water, air and earth, so that the tempered union of all of them might adorn a living being in the form of a divine imitation; and he so composed man by the craft of divine workmanship that, under nature's compulsion, he gathered into a small body the whole power and substance of the elements, in order to prepare for that divine spirit, which descends from the heavenly mind to sustain the mortal body, a lodging that is frail, but nonetheless like the world.

〔二〕所以，洛利亚努斯，我们的光荣，首先我们必须知道：那位造人的神，在自然的指引下，照着世界的形象与样式，完成了人的形貌、状态与全部实质。因为他像造世界一样，用四元素即火与水、气与土的混合组成人的身体，好让这一切调和的结合，以效法神圣者的形式装点一个生灵；他凭神圣工艺的技巧这样组成了人，在自然的驱使下，把元素的全部力量与实质聚到一个小小的身体里，为那从天上的心智降下、来维持可朽身体的神圣之气，预备一所虽然脆弱、却与世界相似的居所。

[3] For this reason the five planets, and the Sun too and the Moon, sustain man, as a kind of lesser world, by their fiery and everlasting motion, so that the living being made in imitation of the world may be governed by a like substance of divinity.

〔三〕因为这个缘故，五颗行星，还有太阳和月亮，以它们火热而永恒的运动维持着人，如同维持一个较小的世界，好让这个仿照世界而造的生灵，由相似的神性实质来治理。

[4] Therefore those divine men, worthy of all admiration, Petosiris and Nechepso, whose wisdom reached the very secrets of the divine, also handed down to us the nativity of the world through the divine teaching of their knowledge, to show and demonstrate that man, formed after the nature and likeness of the world, is sustained forever by the kindling fuel of perpetuity through the same principles by which the world itself is ruled and held together.

〔四〕所以，那两位神圣、值得一切景仰的人，佩托西里斯与尼切普索，他们的智慧直达神圣者的秘奥，也凭他们知识的神圣教导，把世界的本命盘传给了我们，以显示、证明：人照着世界的本性与样式而造，靠着治理、维系世界本身的同一些原理，被永恒的引火之薪永远维持着。

I. The Chart of the World.

第一章　宇宙的星图

[1] Following Asclepius and Anubis, to whom the most mighty divinity of Mercury entrusted the secrets of this science, they held the nativity of the world to be as follows. They placed the Sun in the 15th degree of Leo, the Moon in the 15th degree of Cancer, Saturn in the 15th degree of Capricorn, Jupiter in the 15th degree of Sagittarius, Mars in the 15th degree of Scorpio, Venus in the 15th degree of Libra, Mercury in the 15th degree of Virgo, and the Ascendant in the 15th degree of Cancer.

〔一〕他们追随阿斯克勒庇俄斯与阿努比斯——最有权能的墨丘利神把这门学问的秘奥托付给了这两位——认定世界的本命盘是这样的：他们把太阳放在狮子的第十五度，月亮在巨蟹的第十五度，土星在摩羯的第十五度，木星在射手的第十五度，火星在天蝎的第十五度，金星在天秤的第十五度，水星在处女的第十五度，上升点在巨蟹的第十五度。

[2] In accordance with this nativity, then, and with these conditions of the planets, and with the testimonies which they bear in this nativity, and in accordance with these principles, they hold that the fates of men too are arranged, as is contained in that book of Asclepius called the Myriogenesis, so that nothing in the individual nativities of men seems to be foreign to this nativity of the world. Let us see, then, which planet lent its testimony to the lights, to what extent, and by what manner of its aspect; the lights are the Sun and the Moon.

〔二〕所以，他们认为人的命运也照着这张本命盘、照着诸星的这些阵营、照着它们在这张盘里所作的见证、照着这些原理来安排，正如阿斯克勒庇俄斯那部名为《万命书》的书里所载，以致人的各个本命里没有一样显得与这张世界的本命盘无关。那么，让我们看看哪颗行星为两光作了见证，作到什么程度，凭的是什么样的相位；两光就是太阳和月亮。

[3] Saturn first joins itself to the Moon, for it has followed the Moon's condition; and it follows the condition of the Moon because, placed in a feminine sign, it received by opposition the rays of the Moon, which is placed in a feminine sign. But when this same Saturn, in this nativity of course, has made its passage into the sign of Aquarius, it joins itself in turn to the Sun by a like aspect and is in turn aligned with the same condition as the Sun; for, placed in a masculine sign, it associates itself with an equal testimony of aspect, since it has aspected the Sun by opposition with the same aspect with which it aspected the Moon.

〔三〕土星首先与月亮相连，因为它随从了月亮的阵营；它随从月亮的阵营，是因为它落在阴性星座，以对冲接受了落在阴性星座的月亮的光线。但当这同一颗土星——当然是在这张本命盘里——移入水瓶座时，它又以相似的相位与太阳相连，又被排进与太阳相同的阵营；因为它落在阳性星座，以相等的相位见证与太阳结伴，因为它以照月亮的同一种相位，即对冲，照着太阳。

[4] On the same principle Jupiter too was placed in Sagittarius, so that, placed in a masculine sign and bearing testimony to the Sun by trine, it might join itself first to the condition of the Sun; for this reason, placed in a masculine sign and associated with the Sun, which is placed in a sign of the same gender, it follows first the Sun's power. But when it has made its passage into Pisces, it joins itself in turn to the Moon on equal terms of condition; for in a similar way, itself placed in a feminine sign, it has aspected by trine the Moon, placed in a sign of the same gender, on a matching principle of condition.

〔四〕按同样的道理，木星被放在射手，好让它落在阳性星座、以三分为太阳作见证，首先与太阳的阵营相连；因为这个缘故，它落在阳性星座，与落在同性别星座的太阳结伴，首先随从太阳的权能。但当它移入双鱼时，它又以相等的阵营与月亮相连；因为同样地，它自己落在阴性星座，以对等的阵营之理，用三分照着落在同性别星座的月亮。

[5] In the same way the star of Mars, placed in Scorpio, bears testimony to the Moon by trine, because it is in a feminine sign; but when it has come to Aries, it passes over to testimony of the Sun; for, situated in a masculine sign, it joins itself to the Sun by a trine aspect.

〔五〕同样，火星之星落在天蝎，因为在阴性星座，就以三分为月亮作见证；但当它来到白羊时，就转为太阳作见证；因为它位于阳性星座，以三分的相位与太阳相连。

[6] But in the case of Venus this principle is reversed; for, placed in Libra, although that sign is itself masculine, it nevertheless bears testimony to the Moon by square; but when it has made its passage into Taurus, placed in a feminine sign and aspecting the Sun with a square aspect, it in turn bears testimony to it.

〔六〕但在金星身上，这个道理反了过来；因为它落在天秤，虽然这个星座本身是阳性的，却以四分为月亮作见证；但当它移入金牛时，落在阴性星座，以四分的相位照着太阳，又为太阳作见证。

[7] The star of Mercury they held to be common in this nativity, because it bears testimony to neither the Sun nor the Moon by square, by trine, or by opposition, nor does it join itself by aspect to the Sun or the Moon; rather, it takes its delight in the Sun by day, if it is a morning star, and in the Moon by night, if it is an evening star. All these things we have described they hold must be observed in the nativities of men as well, and they think they cannot discover a man's fate unless these aspects have been gathered by shrewd investigation.

〔七〕水星之星，他们认为在这张本命盘里是共通的，因为它既不以四分、也不以三分、也不以对冲为太阳或月亮作见证，也不以相位与太阳或月亮相连；它白天若是晨星，就以太阳为乐，夜里若是昏星，就以月亮为乐。我们所述的这一切，他们认为在人的本命里也必须观察，并认为除非以敏锐的探究把这些相位收集起来，否则就找不出人的命运。

[8] But lest anyone be deceived by fabulous fictions and think that this nativity was composed by these most wise men without reason, everything must be explained by us in detail, so that the most wise principle of this secret may be made known to all men through the most careful expositions.

〔八〕但为了不让任何人被荒诞的虚构所欺骗，以为这张本命盘是那些极智慧的人毫无道理地编成的，我们必须把一切逐一说明，好让这个秘奥极智慧的道理，借着极细致的阐述让所有人都知道。

[9] This was not the nativity of the world; for the world had no fixed day of its origin, nor was anyone present at the time when the world was formed by the plan of the divine mind and of provident divinity; nor could the striving of human frailty reach so far as to be able easily to conceive or explain the origin of the world, especially since the greater apocatastasis, that is, the restoration, customarily takes place every 300,000 years through pyrosis or through cataclysm; for it is by these two kinds that the apocatastasis, that is, the restoration, customarily comes about. Then the cataclysm, the flood, follows the burning, that is, the pyrosis; for things burnt up could be reborn by nothing else, nor be recalled by anything else to their former appearance and form, unless the dust of the ashes, compacted by an admixture of water, had conceived the gathered fertility of all the generative seeds.

〔九〕这不是世界的本命盘；因为世界没有确定的起源之日，世界凭神圣心智与有远见的神性的筹划而成形的时候，也没有谁在场；人类脆弱的努力也不能伸展到能轻易构想或说明世界的起源，尤其是因为更大的「阿波卡塔斯塔西斯」，即复原，惯常每三十万年一次，经由「皮罗西斯」或经由洪灾发生；因为「阿波卡塔斯塔西斯」，即复原，惯常就以这两种方式发生。于是洪灾，即大水，跟在焚烧即「皮罗西斯」之后；因为被烧尽的东西，不能靠别的什么重生，也不能靠别的什么恢复先前的面貌与形状，除非灰烬的尘土经水的掺和凝结起来，怀上一切生殖种子聚集的丰饶。

[10] But so that there might be a model for astrologers to follow in the nativities of men, these divine men in their wisdom devised this as a kind of nativity of the world. I would like, then, to explain the devices of this divine composition, so that the principle of this admirable conjecture may be laid open through zeal for teaching.

〔十〕但为了让星占家在人的本命里有一个可以遵循的范例，这些神圣的人凭智慧设计了这个仿佛是世界本命盘的东西。所以我愿说明这神圣构造的设计，好凭教导的热忱把这令人赞叹的推测之理打开。

[11] They chose to place the Moon so that it joined itself first to Saturn and handed over to it the rulership of the times, and not without reason; for because the first origin of the world was uncultivated and rough and wild in its rustic way of life, and because rude men, who had set out on the first paths of light, unknown to them, lacked the principle of refined humanity, they held this rustic and rough time to be Saturn's, so that mortal kind, placed at the beginnings of life in imitation of this star, might harden itself in a rustic way of life and in the inhuman harshness of savagery.

〔十一〕他们选择这样安放月亮，使它首先与土星相连，把时期的统辖交给土星，这并非没有道理；因为世界最初的起源未经开化，粗野而野蛮，过着乡野的生活，粗陋的人刚踏上他们不认识的光明的最初路途，缺少文雅人性的道理，他们就认定这乡野粗野的时代属于土星，好让处在生命开端的可朽之族，效法这颗星，在乡野的生活与非人的野蛮严酷中把自己磨硬。

[12] After Saturn, Jupiter received power over the times (for the Moon joins itself to it second), so that, the horror of the former squalor abandoned and the savagery of rustic living set aside, a more cultivated life might be restored to men, with their manners purified. Third, the Moon, joining itself to Mars, handed over to it power over the times, so that mortal kind, having entered on the right road of life and now composed by a certain moderation of humanity, might conceive all the ornaments of the arts and crafts.

〔十二〕土星之后，木星接过了统辖时期之权（因为月亮其次与它相连），好让人们抛弃先前污秽的可怖，搁下乡野生活的野蛮，风俗得到洁净，恢复一种较文明的生活。第三，月亮与火星相连，把统辖时期之权交给它，好让可朽之族走上正确的人生道路，已经由某种人性的节制安顿下来，怀上一切技艺与制作的装饰。

[13] After Mars, Venus received the time of dominion; and because the learning of men, growing by degrees, also conceived the ornaments of wisdom, they held this time, in which learned speech refined the manners of men and in which men were formed by natural knowledge of the several disciplines, to be Venus's, so that, advanced by the majesty of a joyful and salutary divinity, they might govern their wandering actions under the instruction of providence.

〔十三〕火星之后，金星接过了统治的时期；又因为人的学问一步步增长，也怀上了智慧的装饰，他们就认定这个时代属于金星——在这个时代里，有学养的言辞使人的风俗文雅，人们由各门学问的天然知识塑造——好让人们受一位喜乐而有益的神灵的威严推进，在远见的教导下治理他们游荡不定的行为。

[14] The last time they thought should be given to Mercury, to which the Moon joins itself last of all. What could be found more subtle than this arrangement? Once rustic pursuits had been refined, the arts discovered, and the disciplines set in order, the striving of the human race sharpened itself through diverse activities; and because the restless mind in man cannot keep to one course of life, out of various institutions and confused customs the wickedness of malice grew, and in this time the race of men both invented and handed down, by criminal contrivances, the outrages of a life of crime. For this reason they thought the last time should be handed to Mercury, so that the race of men, bent on imitating this star, might conceive the full power of malice.

〔十四〕最后的时期，他们认为应当给水星，月亮最后与它相连。还有什么能比这种安排更精妙？乡野的追求得到洁净，技艺被发现，学问得到整理之后，人类的努力便借着种种活动磨利了自己；又因为人身上好动的心智不能守住一条人生道路，从种种不同的制度和混乱的风俗中，就生长出恶意的邪恶，人类在这个时代凭犯罪的诡计，既发明了、又传下了罪恶生活的种种暴行。因为这个缘故，他们认为最后的时期应当交给水星，好让一心效法这颗星的人类，怀上恶意的全部力量。

[15] From these things, then, which were done in order, and from all the things that brought about the change of the times for the men who followed, the nativity of the world was composed by a divine interpretation of conjecture; and thus far both the origin and the course of the human race are handed down to us, so that this might be the model we follow in the nativities of men. But lest anything seem to have been passed over by us, everything must be explained that proves man to have been formed in imitation and likeness of the world.

〔十五〕所以，从这些依次发生的事，从一切给后来的人带来时代变迁的事，世界的本命盘以神圣的推测诠释组成；直到这里，人类的起源与历程都传给了我们，好让这成为我们在人的本命里所遵循的范例。但为了不显得有什么被我们略过，凡是证明人是仿照世界、照世界的样式而造的一切，都必须说明。

[16] That the apocatastasis takes place through pyrosis and through cataclysm we too have said, and it is confirmed by all. The substance of the human body, too, when the course of life is complete, is dissolved in a similar way; and whenever the body of man, by the natural burning of heat [lacuna] too much loosened, evaporates through floods of the humors, it is thus always either consumed by fiery burning or dissolved by excessive sweating. Nor do the most wise interpreters of the art of medicine declare that the substance of the human race is dissolved by a natural end in any other way than when either moisture has dissolved the fire, or, heat in turn prevailing, the blood has been extinguished to the marrow and dried up. Thus in every way nature, the craftsman, composed man in imitation of the world, so that whatever either dissolves or forms the substance of the world should also form and dissolve man.

〔十六〕复原经由焚烧和洪灾发生，我们也说过，也为众人所确认。人体的实质在生命的行程完结时，也以相似的道理消解；每当人的身体因热的天然燃烧〔此处原文有缺〕过度松弛，经由体液的泛滥蒸散，它就总是或被火热的燃烧煎干，或因过度出汗而消解。最智慧的医术解释者也宣称，人类的实质不以别的方式在自然的终结中消解，除非是湿气消解了火，或者反过来热占了上风，血液直到骨髓都被扑灭、干涸。所以，工匠般的自然在各方面都仿照世界组成了人，使凡是消解或形成世界实质的，也形成、消解人。

[17] Why they wished the twelve signs to begin from Aries must also now be explained, since in the book of instruction this question could not be explained unless the nativity of the world had been shown, and that I ought not to have explained in the book of instruction, lest this exposition, with its obscure interpretation, should confuse the untrained minds of the learner.

〔十七〕他们为什么要十二星座从白羊开始，现在也必须说明，因为在入门之书里，这个问题若不先展示世界的本命盘就无法说明，而那盘我在入门之书里又不应说明，免得这种阐释以它晦涩的诠释扰乱学习者未经训练的心智。

[18] So, re-examining the nativity of the world which, as we said, was most wisely composed by the wisest of men, I found that the Midheaven of the nativity is placed in Aries. On this account, then, because the Midheaven frequently, or rather always, holds the chief rule in all nativities, and because this place lies above the first vertex, and because from this place we gather the foundations of the whole nativity, the beginning of all the signs was fittingly given from this sign, especially since the greater part of the planets, and indeed both lights, that is, the Sun and the Moon, have sent their rays into this sign. For all these reasons it is fitting that the beginning of the stars should start from this sign [text uncertain].

〔十八〕所以，重新考察那张我们说是由最智慧的人极智慧地组成的世界本命盘，我发现本命的中天落在白羊。因为这个缘故，因为中天常常、不，总是在一切本命里居于首位，因为这个宫位在第一个顶点之上，又因为我们从这个宫位收集整个本命的根基，所以从这个星座给一切星座开头是恰当的，尤其因为大部分行星，甚至两光即太阳和月亮，都把光线送入了这个星座。因为这一切理由，诸星的开端从这个星座起是恰当的〔原文疑有讹误〕。

[19] Now, since these things have been said and shown, we must define what each planet decrees when placed in each of the places of the nativity. And although some think this discussion platic, it nevertheless sets the learner's mind in order through easy instruction, so that the astrologer is not, as if set in darkness, thrown into disorder by the stumbling confusion of error. But although some think these things are defined platically, many things will also be stated partilely in this book. For the planets will have their full efficacy only when they are placed partilely in each of their places.

〔十九〕既然这些都已说过、展示过，现在我们必须界定每颗行星落在本命的每个宫位时判定什么。虽然有些人认为这种讨论是概略的，但它以容易的教导使学习者的心智有条理，好让星占家不致像身处黑暗中那样，被错误的跌撞混乱所扰。不过，虽然有些人认为这些是概略地界定的，在这一卷里也会有许多是精确到度地说的。因为行星只有在精确到度地落在它们各自的宫位时，才会有它们的全部效力。